Check out the March-Arpil 2018 issue of Harp Column, featuring Addi & Jacq! Subscribe now to download this issue or read online. [blog type="alt" heading="March-April 2018" cats="march-april-2018" posts="-1" heading_type="block" /]
Harp Column Podcast Episode 35
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Student Scenarios columnist Anne Sullivan about teaching music theory. Plus Anne shares her experiences as a competitor...
Q and A with Steve Moss
Harp Technician Steve Moss creates String Bag online app for harpists and talks 3D printing possibilities for harps Harp Column readers probably know Steve Moss best as a harp technician, often featured in magazine articles and Ask the Experts columns. Turns out Moss'...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 34
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Russian harpist Sasha Boldachev, featured in Harp Column's March-April 2017 issue. Sasha talks about his winter 2018 U.S....
Harp Column Podcast Episode 33
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Angelica Hairston, founder of the advocacy program Challenge the Stats, and author of Artist and Advocate in our...
New Issue Sneak Peek; January-February 2018
Check out the January-February 2018 issue of Harp Column, featuring Florence Sitruk! Subscribe now to download this issue or read online. [blog type="alt" heading="January-February 2018" cats="january-february-2018" posts="-1" heading_type="block" /]
Top Ten Harp Instagram Accounts of 2017
You may or may not have noticed, but we’re a little obsessed with Instagram at Harp Column central. We try to post a lot (follow us @harpcolumn), and we try to share your great harp posts too. (Want to get noticed? Hashtag #practicalharpist.) Naturally, the harp...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 32
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Alison Young, our non-harpist CD Review Editor and MPR classical music radio host. Alison tells us how she got started...
30 Day Practice Challenge 2018
Back by popular demand, it’s Harp Column’s 30 Day Practice Challenge 2018 edition—plan, practice, perform! The focus is the same, but with a new, fun twist. This year, you’ll start the challenge by picking a focus piece, and plan your goal of an end-of-challenge...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 31
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode we're mixing things up with a holiday listening party. Hear your favorite Harp Column Music Artists Rhett Barnwell, Christa Grix, Stephanie...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 30
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Marguerite Lynn Williams, author of "Trial by Fire Music," in our November-December 2017 issue. Lynn tells what it's like...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 29
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Sam Hickman, author of the feature story Busk a Move in our November-December 2017 issue. Sam tells how and why she takes...
New Issue Sneak Peek!
The new Harp Column is out, featuring Mexican harp virtuoso Baltazar Juárez. We caught up with Baltazar just days before devastating earthquakes struck his country. Baltazar later assured us that plans are still underway for the Mexico International Harp Competition...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 28
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Catherine Litaker, author of the Sounding Board article Cuban Crossing in our September-October 2017 issue. Catherine...
Ann Arbor Symphony names Huang principal harpist
Chen-Yu Huang has been appointed Principal Harpist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. The audition was held in early September and required three rounds before the panel selected Huang. She will begin her tenure with the AASO performing Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 27
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Kela Walton, author of Teacher's Pet in our September-October 2017 issue. Kela talks about how she researched this...
McQuay Heads New BYU Idaho Harp Program
Brigham Young University in Idaho has just announced that, as of this fall 2017, they will be expanding their course offerings to include a complete four-year bachelor's of music degree in harp performance. Heading the harp program is Dr. Alicia Duncan McQuay, and...
AHS Seeks New Journal Editor
The American Harp Society is looking for a new editor/publication manager for its official publication, The American Harp Journal. The Journal is a biannual publication sent to AHS membership, institutional subscribers, and paid advertisers. In collaboration with the...
Back to School Q and A with Ann Yeung
As harp students across the country are heading back to school to start their fall semester, we reached out to University of Illinois (U of I) professor Ann Yeung to find out what the back-to-school scene looks like for her and what tips she has for students hoping to...
Harp Column Podcast Episode 26
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Rachel Brandwein, author of Do I Have to Learn This? in our September-October 2017 issue. For more practical harp news...
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